Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were just about to put the bottle in the baby's mouth, and we find there's damned little milk to give." There will be equally strident demands for contracting it; with the Viet Nam war siphoning off billions of dollars, a big budgetary deficit is in prospect unless spending is cut somewhere...
Judging from the lad's hard-charging form at halfback, England's World Cup champion soccer team will have a good prospect in another dozen years. One day a week, Britain's Prince Andrew, 6, motors out from Buckingham Palace with his nanny and his detective to mix it up with some of the local stars at the public playground in Cale Street, Chelsea. Andrew tears around the blacktop like a pale Pelé, but he does seem to be more careful than his big brother. At Scotland's Gordonstoun School a couple of months...
...critics, the prospect is chilling; to some, it is the most objectionable idea in the report. It strikes them as a time-consuming system to plan, and painful to participate in. Explains one, people from different departments "don't normally see each other," the meetings would be difficult to arrange, and once they were held, everyone would wrangle for hours trying to cram into the "core" as much of their own subject as possible. "If you talk to anyone in any department, agrees another professor, "they'll say their subject fits right into that irreducible minimum...
...hold a slender balance of power between the two big parties in the Bundestag. It was they who precipitated the current crisis by quitting Ludwig Erhard's Cabinet over budget problems. Now they were talking separately to the Socialists and to their former CDU partners about the prospect of forming a "mini-coalition...
...another opportunity to generate interest in itself and in the war. Here was a clear-cut chance to do something -- a chance for a large number of SDS members to become involved in a significant anti-war protest. There was a good deal of personal satisfaction in this prospect for more experienced SDS leaders, who anticipated shattering the stolid indifference of the Harvard campus. The McNamara visit, then, was not to be ignored. It was potentially at least, the stuff of which strong organizations are made...